Lunar Festival (Jan 22 - Feb 12) Guide

It's time for the first in-game holiday of 2012, the Lunar Festival--so everyone break out the fireworks, show a little respect for your elders, and come celebrate the (lunar) new year!

The Lunar Festival is held every year starting on a date that typically coincides with the Chinese New Year. 2012's Lunar Festival starts on January 22 and ends on February 12. Ancestors of Azeroth are praised and honored by both Horde and Alliance, who then reward players with a special title, Elder <Name>, a celebration in Moonglade, and numerous Pièce des ancêtres that can be used to purchase festive garb, patterns and fireworks!

There aren't too many changes this year, but there are a few notable ones:

Lanterne lunaire and Lanterne de fête are new faction-specific vanity pets that cost 50 Pièce des ancêtres each. They are BoE, meaning you can trade them on the neutral AH to collect both. Check out our guide to the 50 Easiest Elders if you're thinking of rolling a toon on the opposite faction for this pet and want to know which you can get while leveling.

EU players are reporting that the Elder quests are granting experience and gold this year! In past years, they did not. Seems like a decent boost for alts wanting to level and explore at once.

Ashelia and I updated the guide when it hit US servers live--map coordinates for the new elders, screenshots of the event, and a few more changes!

Elders

Honoring elders is one of the main activities of the festival. In 2012's Lunar Festival, 9 elders have been added in zones new to Cataclysm.

Rewards

Finding and honoring an elder will reward you with 75 reputation with all of your major city factions and a Pièce des ancêtres, which can be used as a currency to purchase festival-related items. Honoring every elder will grant you 84 Pièce des ancêtres, and over 6000 reputation (before bonuses). Players are reporting that you will not receive this reputation bonus applied to factions you are already Honored or above with.

In 2012, honoring elders also grants experience and gold, making this a nice leveling boost for alts.

Complete List

Tip: Clicking on the coordinates in the tables below will open a map of the elder's location in a lightbox. To view your character and your mouse cursor's coordinates on the in-game world map, you can use our very own addon, the Wowhead Looter (type /wl loc map).

Le feu d'artifice lunaireStart & End:Messagère de la fête lunaireTo complete this quest you must purchase fireworks from a nearby Marchand de la fête lunaire and use them nearby. The large fireworks clusters (such as Chapelet de fusées bleues) will require use of a firework launcher, which can be found on the ground around the main Lunar Festival camps. Simply purchase and fire off the specified quantity of fireworks and return the quest to pick up the follow-up.You will receive a Invitation à la fête lunaire which can be used to teleport to Reflet-de-Lune by using it while standing in the 'Greater Moonlight' (a huge, white beam of light located in the main Festival camps). Once in Moonglade, you can teleport back to any major faction city by standing in the correct beam (which are distinguished by racial revelers around each beam). This invitation does have a duration but you can get a new one from the Messagère de la fête lunaire at any time during the festival.

La bénédiction d'ÉluneStart & End:Valadar ChantétoileThis quest is actually flagged as a Raid quest in-game, though it shouldn't take very many level 70 or higher players at all to complete. Simply purchase (or acquire through quests or crafting) some rocket clusters from a Marchand de la fête lunaire and head down to the Stormrage Barrow Dens in Reflet-de-Lune, southeast of Lake Elune'ara. Fire off the fireworks in the nearby cluster launchers to alert the Serviteur de Présage to your presence. You can use the Chandelle d'Élune obtained from La chandelle d'Élune or purchased for 10 silver from Valadar Chantétoile to do additional damage to the Minions and Omen himself.Continue firing off rockets and defeating the Minions and eventually the demon Présage will spawn. He is a Level ?? (Boss) NPC so his actual level will most likely be 3 levels higher than the average level of your group. Even still, he is not a very difficult boss. After Omen is defeated, you must be near his corpse to obtain the Bénédiction d'Elune buff required to complete the quest. You don't have to get credit on the kill. Receive the buff and return to Valadar to complete the quest, which rewards the nifty Lanterne d'Élune which can turn Pierre solide into Pierre d'Élune - not amazing, but still pretty cool!

Achievements

Honorer ses AnciensThis achievement can be found in the main World Events achievement category and is awarded upon completion of every one of the Lunar Festival achievements. This achievement awards the player title 'Elder' and is a requirement towards completion of (Alliance version) which rewards the beautiful Rênes de proto-drake pourpre.

Les Anciens du CataclysmeHonor the Elders which are located in zones opened by the cataclysm.For this achievement, you must honor all 9 elders founded in zones added in Cataclysm. For elder locations, refer to the tabs above. This achievement is new to 2012.

Les Anciens des royaumes de l'EstHonor the Elders which are located in Eastern Kingdoms.For this achievement, you must honor all 17 elders found throughout the Eastern Kingdoms. For elder locations, refer to the tabs above.

Les Anciens de KalimdorHonor the Elders which are located in Kalimdor.For this achievement, you must honor all 21 elders found throughout Kalimdor. For elder locations, refer to the tabs above.

Anciens du NorfendreHonor the Elders which are located in Northrend.For this achievement, you must honor all 18 elders found throughout Northrend (and, incidentally, you must also have the Wrath of the Lich King expansion). For elder locations, refer to the tabs above.

Les Anciens des donjonsHonor the Elders which are located inside the dungeons.For this achievement, you must honor all 13 elders found inside various dungeons of Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor and Northrend. For elder locations, refer to the tabs above.

Les Anciens de l'AllianceHonor the Elders which are located in the Alliance capital cities.For this achievement, you must honor all 3 elders located in major Alliance cities. As the elders are friendly to both factions, this achievement is able to be completed by both Horde and Alliance players. For elder locations, refer to the tabs above.

Les Anciens de la HordeHonor the Elders which are located in the Horde capital cities.For this achievement, you must honor all 3 elders located in major Horde cities. As the elders are friendly to both factions, this achievement is able to be completed by both Horde and Alliance players. For elder locations, refer to the tabs above.

Parure de la fête lunairePurchase a festive pant suit or festive dress with Coins of Ancestry.To complete this achievement, you must purchase either a festive pant suit or festive dress from Valadar Chantétoile with Pièce des ancêtres obtained from honoring the elders. The festival clothing can be purchased for 5 Pièce des ancêtres. There are three different dresses and three different pant suits that can be purchased, so you can get all of them to complete your very own Lunar Festival wardrobe (though the achievement does only require one). The clothing is Bind on Pickup, but items can be purchased by characters of any level so this is a great opportunity to deck out your bank alt in style!

Commentaires

Commentaire de Rystrave

Thank you! This is one of the longest, most grueling events to get all the achievements for. This is much appreciated!

Commentaire de Adamsm

on 2012-01-21T11:40:34-06:00

Nice guide.

Commentaire de Interest

on 2012-01-21T11:47:31-06:00

Oo. New pet =)

Commentaire de desmix

on 2012-01-21T11:50:34-06:00

Thank you! This is one of the longest, most grueling events to get all the achievements for. This is much appreciated!

I have to disagree. I still think that chidlrens week is by far the most intense of them all especially for that one achievement. This one is easy in comparison to it since all you gotta do is go around an

Commentaire de BosephHeyden

on 2012-01-21T12:20:04-06:00

At least this time around they're giving you something for the effort. Last I remembered from doing this during LK, the extent of the reward given was just Ancesetry Coins....not even so much as gold in lieu of experience. At least the gold made it worth doing the Midsummer stuff after I already had the achievements :P.

Commentaire de Feliciamarie

on 2012-01-21T12:46:20-06:00

Aw man! I just threw out my 250 ancestry coins from last year >.<

Commentaire de yukonjack

on 2012-01-21T12:49:13-06:00

Aw man! I just threw out my 250 ancestry coins from last year >.<

Start composing that GM ticket now not sure if they can or will help but it cant hurt to ask.

Commentaire de Peace88

on 2012-01-21T13:59:16-06:00

what are there no outlands elders?

Commentaire de Adamsm

on 2012-01-21T14:06:54-06:00

what are there no outlands elders?

Nope, and never has been....since this is a festival that honours the winning of the War of the Ancients.

Commentaire de Gzer0

on 2012-01-21T16:41:25-06:00

Nice guide , Love it.

Commentaire de Gzer0

on 2012-01-21T16:44:22-06:00

seems take a long time to earn all these achievements.

Commentaire de Adamsm

on 2012-01-21T16:45:20-06:00

seems take a long time to earn all these achievements.

Which is the entire point of them.

Commentaire de Arfan

on 2012-01-21T17:06:30-06:00

elder darkfeather is in twilight highlands in thundermar ruins - at 51.9, 33.1

Commentaire de Nulgar

on 2012-01-21T17:10:57-06:00

Noticed no changes besides the Cataclysm Elders so far, even Omen appears to be the same.

Commentaire de baradiel

on 2012-01-21T17:24:05-06:00

Noticed no changes besides the Cataclysm Elders so far, even Omen appears to be the same.

Yeah, they could have changed something with omen right?

Commentaire de Ylts

on 2012-01-21T17:48:29-06:00

Elders of Cataclysm

UldumMenkhaf the Elder 65,18 Khartut's TombSekhemi the Elder 32,63 The Ruins of Ammon

Commentaire de Drainmor

Nice Guide :) Maybe I can read it Properly tomorrow hehe..Too tired to read ALL of it now

Commentaire de zuiverey

on 2012-01-21T19:34:19-06:00

Thanks very much for the map this helped alot! Really not the most fun event on the year but what is there else to do if you want the violet proto drake :P

Commentaire de buzz3070

on 2012-01-21T19:54:28-06:00

So are the new pets boe or bop?

Commentaire de Magician22773

on 2012-01-21T20:51:50-06:00

Each elder gives a little over 8 gold each, so with 84 of em, this is probably the best holiday event for money making as well. And with Cata flight, is gonna be goofy easy compared to the old days. They also give a decent amount of XP, so they are a great way to get a level or two for just flying around.